Frankly, the call to prayer sounds better to me than the cheesy Swiss accordian music. Note also that very few of Switzerland's mosques actually have minarets, even before the ridiculous referendum.
I wish I knew -- I don't have an iPad. Looks like there's a fair bit of text entry, though; in the demo clip there's definitely an external keyboard of some kind in use. I would think that would make it pretty hard to have much fine-grained control without such a device.
Still, I'd like to try it. Maybe my institution will foot for an iPad...if they do, I'll let you know. :)
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Interesting (and off-putting) that they chose Facebook as the main communications platform. One has to join a FB group to participate. Then again, it's organized by Israelis, and FB is even more ubiquitous in Israel than in the US.
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